Special Theme of the Issue
On Deadly Serious Matters: Anthropology of Death in Contemporary Russia
(guest editors – A.D. Sokolova, A.B. Yudkina)
The Burial/Funeral Ritual Outside of Traditional Culture: Trends and Dynamics of Transformations in Contemporary Russia
pp. 3-6
The Commodifi cation of the Funeral, or the History of Formation of the Market of Funeral Services
pp. 6-13
The Commercialization of the Funeral Ritual and New Roles of Local Ritual Specialists
pp. 14-25
The Dynamics of Urban Funeral Ritual: Global Social Factors and Local Anthropological Contexts
pp. 26-35
Cenotaphs as a Contemporary Form of Objectivization of Memory of the Dead
pp. 36-47
The Memorialization of the Beslan Tragedy
pp. 48-61
History of the Discipline
Russian Émigré Ethnographers in Manchuria, Their Works and Lives
pp. 62-75
Ethnographer Albert Lipsky in Altai: Pages of Biography
pp. 76-82
A.E. Krymsky as an Ethnographer of Lebanon
pp. 82-90
V.F. Miller and His Ossetian Studies
pp. 90-98
Historical Ethnography of Slavs
Social and Age Groups in the Traditional Russian Peasant Society of the Reform Era: The Gender Aspect
pp. 99-115
On the Issue of Mythological Characters of the Russians of the Central Chernozem Region (the 19th – Early 20th Centuries)
pp. 116-130
Caroling During the Harvest (Drawn on Data from the Southwestern Historical-Ethnographic Area of Ukraine)
pp. 131-138
Articles and Materials
Representation of Ethnicity in Monuments and Related Practices in the Levashovo Memorial Cemetery
pp. 139-152
The Ugrian Chapter in the History of the Chuvash
pp. 153-166
Rethinking the Significance of Altered States of Consciousness (Through the Cases of Psychological Anthropology)
pp. 167-178
Reviews and Surveys
Review of Respubliki Severnogo Kavkaza: etnopoliticheskaia situatsiia i otnosheniia s federal’nym tsentrom (Republics of the Northern Caucasus: Ethnopolitical Situation and Relations with the Federal Center), ed. by I.G. Kosikov. Moscow, 2012
pp. 179-183
Mahabharata in the Light of The Iliad: Review of Mif ritual i istoriia v Makhabkharate (Myth, Ritual, and History in Mahabharata), by Y.V. Vasil’kov. St. Petersburg, 2010
pp. 183-186
Review of Russkie v Moldavii. Dvadtsat’ let spustia… Etnosotsiologicheskoe issledovaniie (Russians in Moldova: Twenty Years After… An Ethnosociological Study), by L.V. Ostapenko, I. A. Subbotina, S.L. Nesterova. Moscow, 2012
pp. 186-189